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Negative Effects Of The Black Ghetto

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A black doctor is forced out of his new home when the majority-white neighborhood sets his garage on fire. Soon after, a line of explosives are planted to drive out black families nearby. “98 percent of the public-housing units in Chicago” are built in majority-black neighborhoods. Time after time after time, black people are denied loans and mortgages, while their white counterparts are granted them happily by the lenders. And yet, one often encounters crude statements about the “ghetto”, the alleged home of all black families. When thinking of the ghetto, people generally conjure an image of a gritty, crime-infested, and hopeless place. Who decided this? Certainly not black people. Interestingly enough, just the presence of black families within a majority-white neighborhood in the 1900s caused those homes to drop in value, by thousands. If you were a white home owner who had spent five years’ wages on your first home, wouldn’t you want to protect your investment by all costs? …show more content…

The stereotype of the “black ghetto” was created and perpetuated directly by white home-owners in the late 1900s, to aid in the mission of keeping their neighborhoods’ value high, by forcing black families into disparate

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There is a lot of segregation in the hyper-ghetto the government imposed brought it out not just the company run away, and job became dry up, but the government response always been to reinforces segregation in housing and prison become important as well. The chart shown about job in the 1900 to 1920 and until today have record of its own sedate and this isn’t about people in prison in the united stated the federal pen didn’t exist there no such things. Somethings clearly has happened to the american justice what Wacquant called the hyper-ghetto its begin the reality, so they go together in time, but he’s clearly think the second states of the movement of the communal become jobless. There isn’t just a jobless or program that segregate African American from others but also goes along with this ordinary people in prison, so the idea is that one of the things happened between communal ghetto and the hypo-ghetto is that in this time there where a lot of local institution community is communal. This is not part of the city there

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Based on this we can conclude that the mere image of being black is shattered and anywhere you go you will be judged as lower class. The fear created by the media make it seem like if you were to rent your home to a black descent, they’ll destroy your home or yet create a hostile environment and make it uncomfortable to other people. Another fear that sticks around with Africans Americans is that they “promote the gang lifestyle or are anti law enforcement” (Glassner 122). Though the realtor shuns African Americans from renting the homes they would not even rent/sale the home to a black family, even if they were well qualified, with higher incomes, and was willing to pay a higher down payment. From the book The Black Image in the White Mind by Andrew Rojecki and Robert Entman, they present us with white beliefs stating “the media conveys “problematic” images of African Americans even after decades of heightened awareness and vigilance to rid the media of stereotypes”.

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